Spectators stand in front of the Beaumont Hotel and sit in parked automobiles to watch several bands performing possibly for an July Fourth (4th) (Independence Day) celebration on Main Third (3rd) Street, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. Business...

Two hunters in sit near a simple wood cabin probably in Colorado. Game birds, geese and ducks, hang from an outside wall near a window. Panes in the window are broken and the chimney and roof are in disrepair.

Two members of the Hayden Survey (U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, 1871) sit in a boat with oars and a sail near a rocky shore on Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. A canvas drape on the side of the boat reads:...

Native American Pueblo boys with rifles, guard a shrine adorned with cottonwood boughs, corn plants and a cross for the Feast of San Esteban, (St. Stephen) patron saint of Acoma, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Men sit inside the shrine with blankets,...

Two barefoot Native American (Acoma) women sit on a rock at Acoma Pueblo (Cibola County), New Mexico and pose for the camera. They wear cotton skirts and blouses and leggings. They hide their faces with shawls.

Men and women dressed in formal attire sit in a Pacific Railroad dining car. African American (Black) men waiters carry trays. The railroad car has curtains, glass globe lights and mirrors. Railroad workers stand near a dynamite blast through a...

Members of the Central City Fire Department, who include an African American, stand in a large semicircle in the middle of Main Street in Central City, Colorado. They wear rolled up shorts over their long underwear and their arms are folded across...

Three boys, who include an African American and a Mexican American, pose with Mesh Christmas stockings at Wyman School, 1630 Williams Street in the City Park West neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. They sit at a table with a stack of Christmas...

A bartender stands behind the bar in a saloon associated with the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company possibly in Boulder or Weld Counties, Colorado. Patrons sit at tables, drink beer, and play cards. Several African American (Black) miners are in the bar....

A Black man and two white girls sit in a four wheel buggy draped in cloth and decorated with greenery on Cascade Avenue, part of the Flower Carnival in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The buggy is hitched to a horse with decorated tack....

A Black man and a white woman sit in a two wheel buggy decorated with greenery as part of the Flower Carnival in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The buggy is hitched to a team of two horses with decorated tack. The woman holds a parasol...

Interior view of a soup kitchen for the unemployed in Denver, Colorado; African American (Black) and white men and boys sit or stand at tables with bowls of soup and bread. Shows a coffee urn and cafeteria employees.

African American teenage girls, who include Margaret Mackey, June and Charlotte, and a young girl sit on the steps of the house of Virginia Woodward, their Sunday School teacher. They wear dresses, stockings and "pump" shoes with ankle straps; one...

Margie, an African American teenage girl, holds onto a swinging ladder with one hand and onto a pole with the other hand near Rocky Mountain Lake at Rocky Mountain Lake Park, Denver, Colorado. She wears a "sailor" style blouse, a skirt, tennis...

Two African American teenage girls identified as Margie and Eleanor, sit atop a slide at Rocky Mountain Lake Park, Denver, Colorado. One wears a "sailor" style blouse and skirt; the other wears a "sailor" hat, shirt and overalls.

Four girls sit on toilets and laugh and chat in a bathroom in probably Denver, Colorado. The girls are African American, white, Hispanic American and Asian American. The girls wear dresses, and blouses, shorts and skirts. Patterns include...

African Americans Omar Blair, representing the Denver Urban Renewal Authority and the Rev. Cecil W. Howard, of the Shorter Community AME Church, along with Denver Mayor William H. McNichols hold shovels at the ground breaking for the Denver Urban...

View of a utility building near an abandoned apartment building at 625 25th (Twenty-fifth) Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. An African American (Black) boy and girl sit and stand nearby.

Flyer addressed to the Proprietors and Managers of Theaters in Denver, CO, warning them against the segregation of theater customers. Issued by the Denver Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

View of party of men with a tent, a mule-drawn covered wagon, and horses, Eagle County, Colorado. Identification as follows: Col. L.W. Woods and James Stevenson stand and J.S. Delano and Thomas Moran sit, unidentified African American (Black) cook...

The view along Miner Street in Idaho Springs, Colorado, shows eight teams of horses with wagons and carriages in front of the Idaho Springs fire house. One team pulls a load of lumber, one team pulls a large boiler, and one team pulls a load of...

African American (Black) men, women and children stand at a frame cotton elevator building that reads: "Missis[sippi] Elev[ator]," and wave to passengers on a steamship at Vicksburg (Warren County), Mississippi. Shows African American people beside...

An African American (Black) couple sit in chairs in a large opulent room in an unknown location in Denver, Colorado. The woman wears a party dress and speaks to a man dressed in a tuxedo, they both hold drinks. A sign in the distance reads H.D.C.,...

A group of African American (Black) men sit on wicker furniture and pose in a large, opulent room at an unknown location in Denver, Colorado. Each man wears a sash under his tuxedo jackets. Heavy curtains cover the windows in the distance. The men...

View of the Walsen Colored Club, a miners' club building for African-American miners at the mining camp of Walsen, in Huerfano County, Colorado. Shows a wood frame building with clapboard siding and a false front. Clerestory windows sit on top of a...

African American (Black) children and a man sit in front of a log cabin in an unknown location. The man wears a jacket, short pants, and sits on the porch near wood buckets and chairs. One boy sits on a pile of rocks that serve as steps. He wears a...

Men, women, and children stand or sit and pose on a street in Creede (Mineral County), Colorado. White and Black (African American) men wear suits or vests and hats. Women wear dresses and aprons; a woman holds a dog. A sign on a business reads:...

Tuberculosis patients in Denver, Colorado, enjoy fresh air on the balcony of the Agnes Memorial Sanatorium, built by Lawrences Phipps in 1903 and named for his mother Agnes McCall Phipps. The men sit in wicker rockers next to metal-framed beds...

Several buildings were moved to Alamosa, Colorado, from Garland City in 1878. Men stand on a boardwalk, posing in front of some of them. From the left to right are Sabine, Thomas, Putnam, Hill and Anthony. Thomas has a hand trick with full sacks...

The Alamosa Division headquarters and passenger station of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Alamosa County, Colorado, is a two-story brick structure with overhanging hipped roof. It was built after the old frame building burned in 1907. The...